For the first time, the garden of Villa La Quiete in Florence — commissioned in the 18th century by Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici to adorn the female conservatory where she had been educated — has opened to the public. The Quiete garden, the last of the great Medici gardens, has been fully restored by the University of Florence. Work started in 2023. The project was signed by the Pistoia-based company Franchi+Associati with Giorgio Galletti. "It is a true 'time capsule', an exceptional case, practically unique in Italy, of a garden preserved ab origine", Galletti writes. "The only other is the Bonaccorsi Garden in Potenza Picena, Marche, which has remained almost unaltered since the 1700s. As for the remainder, the genuine Italian gardens have vanished, and the only remaining ones are a British-created fabrication from the 1930s". Villa La Quiete was renovated by Christine of Lorraine in 1627. Subsequently, the noblewoman Eleonora Ramirez de Montalvo acquired the complex and converted it into the headquarters of the secular congregation she established, which was dedicated to the education of noble girls. Anna Maria Luisa, the last Medici, returned to Florence after her husband's death in 1723 and established the garden. As is customary in the Medici tradition and, more broadly, in the ancient garden, the productive and aesthetic dimensions coexisted. In fact, the Quiete features 16 squares cultivated with fruit trees.